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Moderates are always there to save us from having to spend tax dollars o worthless things like food and medical care to the huddled masses of poor. Theyre poor because theyre undeserving, or because God hasnt given them his grace and theyre condemmed to hell anyway, or something. Even Mike Johnson knows this. What they need is to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Only the very wealthy, the creators of all that is good, are truly deserving. Moderate Democrats have the COURAGE to cross the aisle and vote with their friends to take those things away and get the businesses of America back up and doing what they do best: exploitation and self-enrichment. Here are some of the things that moderates have saved us from in this century:
* Moderates saved us from the horror of a minimum wage increase.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of Medicare for all.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of student loan forgiveness (Biden messed that up a bit).
* Moderates saved us from the horror of tuition-free community college education.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of a child tax credit.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of statehood for D.C. and possibly Puerto Rico (should they choose to accept someday).
* Moderates saved us from the horror of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of the reinstatement of net neutrality.
* Moderates saved us from the horror of any repeal of the Trump tax benefits to the wealthy passed in his first term.
* Moderates saved us from enshrining the right to an abortion in Federal law.
* Moderates have continued to save us from the horror of meaningful campaign finance reform.
* Moderates have continued to save us us from reinstating regulations to business removed in the wake of Reaganism.
* Moderates have continued to save us us from the horror of a reinstatement or any expansion of banking and finance regulations.
* Moderates prevented the failure of the Charlie Kirk Resolution.
Moderates will continue to do the fine work of making the wealthy, privileged and powerful more wealthy, privileged and powerful; and bipartisanly helping their friends across the aisle fuck over everyone else.
So next time you go to the polls to vote for the candidate the oligarchy chooses through their free and balanced exercise of free speech donations, dont bother to look into their past. Dont look to deep into the positions they take. Just vote the straight blue ticket and preserve the Big Tent from the evil of becoming an ideological party - because a far-right ideology doesnt count. Clearly what we need is more of the same, for America!
Plus Irony and Hyperbole, but there aren't any thingies for those.
yaesu
(8,807 posts)LearnedHand
(5,133 posts)I shudder to imagine life without the moderates.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,447 posts)for "moderates" "corporate-friendly" "problem-solver" "establishment" types.
They do little for us, and a lot for the other side.
Duncan Grant
(8,842 posts)One has to be neck-deep in privilege to shrug off the inertia of the moderates.
Im going to predict this party wont do jack -shit for the lgbtqi+ community when push comes to shove (coming soon), but well be expected to cave for some abstract promise about serving the greater good. I am sick to death of sh*t being propagandized into ice-cream.
anti-repub
(18 posts)Democratic Party so called "moderates" have given a new meaning to the word "cave"man
durablend
(8,757 posts)And their supporters will be right here moving those goalposts.
jfz9580m
(16,103 posts)All things moderates save the world from..
Lina Khans appointment was another huge error by President Biden! Mark Cuban warned democrats against persons like her!
And well..anything environment related..take the the roadless rule for instance ..I am sure the last wild places in the US would benefit from some nice litter! And thinning of wildlife and forests!
Drill baby drill! Screw that phony climate change shit!
Wrt anything environment or climate change related you can count on moderates..
fujiyamasan
(948 posts)I still consider myself a moderate democrat, (or used to by todays ideological standards). Now I guess Im a radical leftist.
All I expected was a coherent strategy to preserve one of the more significant pieces of healthcare legislation in over half a century. I didnt necessarily expect democrats to win, because the other party wants to burn the country to ashes, but if youre going to start a fight, you see it through, or at least extract some concessions from the other side, or let the other side make a really drastic move like resorting to the nuclear option.
This didnt even feel ideological. Its just looked like a cop out. It made the party look feckless and incompetent. Why the dog and pony show in the first place? They could have rolled over and played dead weeks ago.
JHB
(37,865 posts)This is why I put "centrist" in quote marks. Just because they call themselves that doesn't mean they're the center. More like a self-serving what to paint yourself as the reasonable one by pointing right and left and pretending both are extreme.
flying-skeleton
(808 posts)These 8 to 10 senators better hand gotten rich from surrendering because they just ended their political careers and will have to live their lives in shame ‼️‼️‼️‼️
question everything
(51,378 posts)Polybius
(21,156 posts)question everything
(51,378 posts)ms.pamela
(66 posts)Thank-you for telling it like it is.
leftstreet
(38,208 posts)Emile
(39,084 posts)you listed that they would be tired of winning.
Celerity
(53,014 posts)AStern
(600 posts)They couldn't give a flying EFF about anything.